We’ve been given permission to play THE CONGRESS one more time, so if you missed it on Opening Night, here’s your chance to catch this amazing live/animation hybrid film by Ari Folman (Waltz With Bashir) starring Robin Wright, Harvey Keitel, Jon Hamm and Paul Giamatti. The film plays at the Roxie Theater Saturday February 15…

Adam Hartzell at Fandor.com reports on three of this year’s festival selections that deal with disability: “It’s nice to see Indiefest include a couple films that step beyond the documentary in featuring disabled actors playing disabled characters. One is short Japanese feature There Is Light (Yukihiro Toda) and the other is the Chadian film Grigris (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, 2013). The…

Rookie Mag recently published a new interview with TEENAGE director Matt Wolf and author Jon Savage, whose book Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture was the foundation for the film. This collage-style essay film – with a score by Bradford Cox of Atlas Sound and Deerhunter – is SF Indie’s centerpiece film this year, screening…

Exciting news for director Ben Wheatley, whose films DOWN TERRACE, KILL LIST and SIGHTSEERS have all played at IndieFests past – and whose A FIELD IN ENGLAND plays this year’s festival this weekend on February 8th and 9th. (tickets HERE) The news: A screen adaptation of British new wave science fiction writer JG Ballard’s apocalyptic…

When Ari Folman’s THE CONGRESS premiered last May (and was subsequently dubbed “the craziest film at Cannes”), actress Robin Wright and director Ari Folman gave a series of interviews on the film,  discussing the various inspirations for the film – including Stanislaw Lem’s 1971 novel THE FUTUROLOGICAL CONGRESS – and below are a couple of…